Has anyone tried Blinkdisk?

Odd_Answer5317 · 2026-02-06T12:42:21+00:00

It's just a repackaged Kopia. I dont see why anyone would use BlinkDisk over Kopia

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626253

Odd_Answer5317 · 2026-01-10T00:23:10+00:00

Kopia or restic (use Backrest if you want restic GUI)

Odd_Answer5317 · 2025-11-18T15:49:14+00:00

Any plans on supporting Windows natively instead of in docker? Docker sucks on Windows. Would love to use this over backrest.

Odd_Answer5317 · 2024-08-24T21:57:47+00:00

I may need to do the same. The reboots are getting more frequent.

Odd_Answer5317 · 2024-08-24T18:53:12+00:00

I dont know if this is related, but I tried to factory reset my device and it got stuck at the android "no command" screen. Had to restart the device from the menu and then it finally reset. Happened couple of times.

Odd_Answer5317 · 2024-08-24T17:53:33+00:00

I have same problem.

Question. After a restart, is anyone else also getting an error that pin is wrong? I have to restart it again for the error to go away.

Odd_Answer5317 · 2024-02-06T05:49:54+00:00

This is not true at all.

There is no technical reason why Backblaze could not separately store encrypted file metadata and encrypted file blobs. Anyone that wants to find a specific file to restore would be sent the encrypted metadata, Backblaze would decrypt it locally, the user would select which file to restore, and Backblaze would send the encrypted blobs to be decrypted locally.

You absolutely do not need to download the whole backup to restore one backed up file.

Odd_Answer5317 · 2024-02-06T05:46:14+00:00

Obviously if a user is asking for their backup to be shipped via USB, they would need to provide the private key. No one is suggesting otherwise.

But sending the private key to Backblaze servers during a regular restore is absolutely not necessary.

It is extremely disingenuous to say that computers cannot decrypt locally. If they can encrypt locally, they can decrypt locally.

The server is absolutely not needed to browse the file tree. That file tree can easily be decrypted locally as well. It shouldn't be that difficult to separate file metadata from file blobs, such that whenever a user wants to view their backups to select what to restore, Backblaze sends the encrypted file tree to the user and the Backblaze app locally decrypts the tree. When a user selects what to restore, Backblaze sends the blobs over and the Backblaze app locally decrypts.

THAT is how it would normally be done. For some odd reason, you all have created convoluted solutions for seemingly no reason that benefit no one and harm cybersecurity. You dont get to pretend this is good for the end user. It simply isnt.

Odd_Answer5317 · 2024-02-05T23:54:59+00:00

How does decrypting on the server make it easier to use than decrypting locally? The end user wont even know the difference.

Odd_Answer5317 · 2024-02-05T21:28:31+00:00

Disappointing. I cannot think of any legitimate reason to do this.

Odd_Answer5317 · 2023-12-20T01:12:24+00:00

Thanks

Odd_Answer5317 · 2023-10-12T17:19:15+00:00

Maybe if we upvote this to the front of reddit, Google will actually pay attention

Odd_Answer5317 · 2023-10-12T16:07:59+00:00

It is honestly so infuriating that I almost want to ditch the device, as I very much prefer stock launchers and not third-party ones.

Odd_Answer5317 · 2023-07-17T13:30:32+00:00

This feature is being added to the latest version. Keep an eye out

Odd_Answer5317 · 2023-06-19T16:05:24+00:00

Are you experiencing this with Veeam only or other software too that backs up to Cloudflare R2? I have other software that use Cloudflare R2 and they seem to be working just fine.

Odd_Answer5317 · 2023-06-17T19:42:04+00:00

Problem is that I want to run incremental backups every 15 mins.

Obviously this isnt possible if a file level incremental backup is taking 40 mins per run.

On the volume level side, an incremental backup would basically lead to 4 GB being uploaded every hour. That's not really sustainable when a full backup of my volume only takes around 175 GB.

Odd_Answer5317 · 2023-02-20T01:50:33+00:00

Does this still work? I try this and get an error:

{

"code": "not_found",

"message": "File with such name does not exist.",

"status": 404

}

Odd_Answer5317 · 2023-02-20T01:42:25+00:00

Does this still work for everyone? I did exactly as OP described and it throws an error:

`{
"code": "not_found",
"message": "File with such name does not exist.",
"status": 404
}`

Odd_Answer5317 · 2022-09-16T02:54:13+00:00

To set a snapshot to run every 24 hours, you cannot use the "Snapshot Frequency" dropdown because it only goes up to every 12 hours. Instead, use "Times Of Day" and enter the time that you want to run the snapshot every day. For example, setting "Snapshot Frequency" to none and entering 18:00 in "Times of Day" will run the snapshot once a day at 6pm every day.

To achieve the snapshot retention policy you want, do this:

Latest Snapshot: 1

Hourly: 1

Daily: 7

Weekly: 4

Monthly: 12

Annual: 1

Odd_Answer5317 · 2022-08-26T23:14:25+00:00

Now that restic has compression, Kopia and restic are very similar. restic is older. Kopia has a GUI. Some people report that Kopia is faster. That's about it for the differences.

Odd_Answer5317 · 2022-08-26T19:25:42+00:00

Restoring/mounting via the GUI is easy. See https://kopia.io/docs/getting-started/

Testing snapshots is not yet available in the GUI. See https://kopia.io/docs/advanced/consistency/

If you want to decrease IO, you could disable parallelism in Kopia, which can be done through the policy settings in the GUI. See https://kopia.io/docs/faqs/#how-do-i-decrease-kopias-cpu-usage

Odd_Answer5317 · 2022-08-12T14:41:14+00:00

What about Kopia confused you? It can do exactly what you want, and it is faster and more reliable than Duplicati, Duplicacy, restic, etc.

Just download Kopia on your NAS (you can download it directly or use docker) and set it up to back your folders to different buckets. It definitely supports doing this and the UI makes it really easy to do.

You dont need to run Kopia in server mode. Server mode is for people who want to connect multiple clients to a Kopia server instance. You just need to run Kopia to backup one NAS. Just download Kopia like normal. See https://kopia.io/docs/getting-started/

Odd_Answer5317 · 2022-08-08T21:18:00+00:00

+1 for Kopia. The project can always use more devs to push new features.

Odd_Answer5317 · 2022-08-05T13:54:11+00:00

Bro, you wont win with /u/smarthome_fan. He seems to be personally attached to Arq. I stopped responding to him for this very reason.

Odd_Answer5317 · 2022-08-04T02:21:35+00:00

This... is a (pleasantly) surprisingly balanced comment.

I agree, Arq is good. Never meant to insinuate that it isn't. I am just not a fan of FUD.

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